Walmart Chooses Blu-Ray

The nations top retailer, Walmart, has officially chosen sides in the ‘Blu-Ray’ verses HD-DVD debate, according to this AP report.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Wal-Mart-Blu-ray.html?_r=1&ex=1360818000&oref=slogin

Netflix, Blockbusters, Target, MGM, News Corp, Fox, Disney and Time Warner have also chosen Sony’s Blu-Ray over Toshiba’s HD-DVD.  Personally, I think because ‘Blu-Ray’ was a cooler sounding name, and thus more marketable to consumers.

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Telomeres in Mice

Today in my biochemistry class, I learned that mice telomers are so long (9000 bp, if I remember correctly) that the effects of mutations inhibiting the activity of telomerase will not be seen untill the next generation.

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